How To Remove Nail Extensions At Home? Know Step-by-step Guide

Nail extensions are trending quite often and are the easiest way to add some length to your nails. But then after a few weeks or a month, you have to visit a salon to remove then. With busy schedules, here are some ways to remove nail extensions at home.

Trimming and Filing the Nails

These would include things like jewels or any other bling that needs to be removed before soaking them. Followed by this, use clippers to take out all the glitter and or with fingers is possible.

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Remove nail extensions with the help of acetone 

Take a bowl with acetone and another one with warm water. Put the bowl containing acetone inside the bowl containing warm water to gently warm it up. Now apply petroleum jelly on your cuticles. After that, dip your nails in the bowl that has acetone. You will have to wait for at least 40 minutes. After that, you can remove your nail extensions with the help of tweezers.

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Wrap aluminium foil around each finger

Wrap the foil tightly around each nail so that the acetone won’t evaporate. Do this to each nail until all of your gel nails are covered in soaked cotton balls and wait for acetone to penetrate the gel. Wait for 10 minutes before checking should allow enough time for the gel to begin to come off. Set a timer to help you remember.

Soak your nails in acetone again for few minutes

Touch the cotton balls to see if they’re still wet with acetone or if they need to be soaked again. Set a timer for another 5-10 minutes to let the acetone continue soaking off the gel.

Clean and moisturise your nails

Wash your hands after you've finished with the acetone to clean it off of your skin, if desired. Pay special attention to the skin around your fingernails as you apply the lotion. Use a hand lotion or cream so your hands are feeling soft again.

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